About:
kdb is a debugger that is part of the linux kernel and provides a means of examining kernel memory and data structures while the system is operational. Additional commands may be easily added to format and display essential system data structures given an identifier or address of the data structure. The current command set allows complete control of kernel operations including single-stepping a processor, stopping upon execution of a specific instruction, stopping upon access (or modification) of a specific virtual memory location, stopping upon access to a register in the input-output address space, stack tracebacks for the current active task as well as for all other tasks (by process id), instruction disassembly, et. al.

Author:
Scott Lurndal <slurn __at__ griffin __dot__ engr __dot__ sgi __dot__ com> [contact developer]

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8.31/10.00 (1 vote)

Homepage:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/
Tar/GZ:
ftp://oss.sgi.com/www/projects/kdb/download/v4.4/

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		System :: Operating System

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	4.4	10-Feb-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] Symbolic stepping
by Joho - Aug 14th 2001 07:34:37

This Kernel patch would be really excellent if it
was possible to step symbolically through the
kernel functions like using the gdb. Looking at
the assembler code is not quite satisfying when
you begin to develop in the kernel, and especially
there this one is useful.

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[»] kdb for linux-2.3.xx kernel?
by Steve Ralston - Nov 29th 1999 00:29:19

Has anyone ported the kdb patch to a more recent (2.3.xx) kernel?

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